Man tries, fails to FedEx drugs from Seattle

On Thursday afternoon, a man in his 20s went to the FedEx Office on Northeast Northgate Way – known until recently as Kinko’s – and asked for a box.

The clerk gave him one, then watched as he transferred goods from under a blanket into the box and taped it shut. The man filled out a shipping slip for overnight delivery to an apartment in Tulsa, Okla., paid for it and left.

The box wasn’t completely taped shut, and as the clerk was taping it after the man left he “smelled what he believed was marijuana coming from inside (the) box,” according to a police report.

He opened the box, and found two bundles of weed and $61 wrapped in vacuum-tight plastic bags, police said. The bundles totaled 145.3 grams.

The police report was forwarded to a narcotics detective, but the poor packager might have caught a break: He didn’t have to sign for the shipment and wasn’t required to provide identification.